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The biggest propaganda win of the century has been the following: In a country with complete freedom of movement (and relatively cheap long-distance transporta
by RC_ITR 3y ago
The biggest propaganda win of the century has been the following:
In a country with complete freedom of movement (and relatively cheap long-distance transportation), the mainstream has been convinced that homelessness is only caused by the communities where those people live.
It's the Federal government's historical role to serves as a social safety net, not mid-sized cities with 'live outside year round' weather.
Like what does SF 'fixing homelessness' even look like? I can tell you what it looks like at the Federal level.
- zdragnar 3y ago> Federal government's historical role to serves as a social safety net This is not true. Medicare, section 8 housing and social security are (relatively) new inventions, and Medicaid is run by individual states, with some funding from the federal government. By volume, most social programs are either state or county run, from job training to mental health and food assistance and so on. As for what SF can do, it can designate emergency shelter space sufficient to get out from under the federal regulations preventing them from breaking up permanent camps. They can make cash payments contingent on going through some service which pushes people towards getting mental health care, addiction treatment, housing / job assistance, etc. So long as they are paying people to be homeless, and managing themselves into a corner where they can't stop illegal camping, some people will choose to stay that way for one reason or another, and they will choose to do so in SF.
- RC_ITR 3y ago> Medicare, section 8 housing and social security are (relatively) new inventions I guess we just have different time horizons of what counts are historical, since Medicare is ~3x my age.